Services Computing has become a cross-discipline that covers the

science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

and

technology Technology is the application of Conceptual model, conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word ''technology'' can also mean the products resulting from such efforts, including both tangible too ...

of bridging the gap between business services and

IT services Information technology service management (ITSM) are the activities performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control IT services offered to customers. Differing from more technology-oriented IT management approach ...

. The underlying technology suite includes

Web service A web service (WS) is either: * a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the Internet, or * a server running on a computer device, listening for requests at a particular port over a n ...

s and

service-oriented architecture In software engineering, service-oriented architecture (SOA) is an architectural style that focuses on discrete services instead of a monolithic design. SOA is a good choice for system integration. By consequence, it is also applied in the field ...

(SOA),

cloud computing Cloud computing is "a paradigm for enabling network access to a scalable and elastic pool of shareable physical or virtual resources with self-service provisioning and administration on-demand," according to International Organization for ...

, business consulting methodology and utilities,

business process modeling Business process modeling (BPM) is the action of capturing and representing business processes, processes of an enterprise (i.e. modeling them), so that the current business processes may be analyzed, applied securely and consistently, improved, ...

, transformation and integration. This scope of Services Computing covers the whole life-cycle of service provision that includes business componentization, services modeling, services creation, services realization, services annotation, services deployment, services discovery, services composition, services delivery, service-to-service collaboration, services monitoring, services optimization, as well as services management. The goal of Services Computing is to enable IT services and computing technology to perform business services more efficiently and effectively.

References

External links

Technical Committee on Services Computing, IEEE Computer Society (TCSVC)

IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)

IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES)

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD)

IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE)

IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH)

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS)

IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC)

IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS)
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